Action Dashboard: Upcoming Hearings, Legislation & Action Opportunities

Welcome!

Stop by here anytime for a list of upcoming key action opportunities, including; tabling, public comment sessions, testifying at hearings, and growing the climate movement. One of the most important things you can do is to make your voice heard. Please speak up for strong climate leadership!

*Please visit our online calendar for details on all of our events this month, including monthly committee meetings, additional events hosted by 350 Colorado, and upcoming trainings. 

Ways to Take Action:

In-Person Events:

  1. Connect with the community and actively help grow the climate movement by tabling or flyering with us! We are looking for volunteers to share about our campaigns and ways to take action. We have all the tools you need to succeed in this role!
    1. “Save The Aurora Reservoir” Events – East Aurora is facing hundreds of new oil & gas fracking wells – unless we come together to stop it!
      1.  Community Gathering & Sign Making – Weds. Sept. 27, 5-7pm, at the Lakehouse at Southshore, 27151 E Lakeview Dr., Aurora. Join us as we grow our movement and prepare for the hearing!
      2. Arapahoe County Commission Hearing – Tues. Oct, 10, 5:30pm at 5334 S.Prince St, Littleton. Join us in demanding that the new updates to the county’s oil & gas regulations are protective of healthy, safety, and the environment!
    2. Fracking & Pollution: Action Tour – Sat. Oct. 7, 11am to 3pm. This tour will give participants a firsthand look at fracking, highlighting any uncontrolled pollution we observe from oil and gas infrastructure and the lack of meaningful regulation by our state and local governments to end the destructive process. By using the technology and field expertise of Earthworks and the movement building power of 350 Colorado, this first Action Tour of its kind will give participants a chance to not only experience the issues, but to take meaningful action together with other concerned activists and community members, forming a stronger climate movement.
      From ‘What the frack?’ to ‘Time to act!’ – join us!

Online Actions:

  1. The Safe & Healthy Colorado coalition has introduced a Statewide Ballot Initiative to Phase Out All New Fracking Permits by 2030!  Complete your Pledge to Sign the ballot initiative here and check out 20 Ways You Can Help Bring the Fracking Phase Out to voters in 2024!
  2. Sign the petition to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack demanding that he cancel the Uinta Basin Railway.
  3. Watch and share this video on social media to learn how oil and gas fracking is fueling the flames for more intense wildfires in Colorado
  4. Support Nuclear-Free Pueblo from anywhere!
Upcoming Hearings & Public Comment Opportunities: 

Engage at the Air Pollution Control Division: 

You can read recommendations from scientists and technical experts for more information. Then, if you have input, please submit your comments on the online form. More information and resources are available on the division’s website.

Upcoming Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) Public Comment Opportunities.

Stay tuned for upcoming hearings. Meanwhile you can email the AQCC with feedback at cdphe.aqcc–comments@state.co.us. Here is 350 Public Comment on proposed rule revisions. Talking points for this rule are: 1. They are requiring the Social Cost of Carbon to be used but they do not specify at what amount. They are using an outdated discount rate of 8%. They should specify the same amount for Social Cost of Carbon and discount rate that the Colorado Legislature passed into law this year. 2. They should require third party audits of emissions reports by manufacturers, not rely on self-reporting.

Upcoming Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) Public Comment Opportunities.

Please join us to offer public comment at ECMC  (formerly COGCC) meetings! We are maintaining a presence so that the Commissioners continue to hear from people concerned about health, safety and the environment.

Here are some general talking points. 

Here’s their hearing schedule, where you will also find links to sign-up to speak. You MUST sign up beforehand if you’d like to speak. Online sign-up is only open the week before the hearing and usually closes about 24 hours before the hearing.

Submitting written comments is also a great option. To provide written public comment on a docket pending before the Commission, you must sign into the  eFiling Public Comment Portal. 

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